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On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Chris Adams wrote:
setup. As for web blocking, I have used Squid with Squidguard in the past and it seemed to work well.
Another option you may want to consider is DansGuardian[1], which I believe is CIPA-compliant (which may or may not be important to you, depending upon the nature of your new job -- congrats, BTW). You can get RPMs for current RHEL and FC from Dag Wieers[2], but it looks like he fell off the FC Train around FC3. SquidGuard may have a good admin interface as well (I don't know), but there's a Webmin[3] module for DansGuardian[4] that makes it possible to manage your exception lists w/o having to give SSH access. Nice if you have non-SSH-compliant folks who want to be able to grant content-filter exemptions without pestering you. URLBlacklist offers inexpensive subscriptions[5] to regular content-filtering blacklist updates (these work with SquidGuard as well) and there are "phrase list" updates available for free from FuturaGTS[6].
A school we manage has been running DansGuardian for three(?) years now, and it's been great. As you can see from DG's literature, it does weighted phrase matching/scoring in addition to straight-up URL blacklisting, so it's pretty flexible. You can edit the weightings in text files if you think it's clamping down on certain words/phrases too assiduously. AND the DG folks (I'm assuming the FutureGTS people too) provide phraselists in other languages, preventing people from being banned from www.penthouse.com, but being allowed to surf to, say, www.penthouse.de.
In other news, let us know how your experience with the Linux Terminal Server Project goes, if you go that route...
Cheers, - -sth [1] http://dansguardian.org/?page=whatisdg [2] http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dansguardian [3] http://www.webmin.com [4] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dgwebminmodule [5] http://urlblacklist.com/?sec=subscribe [6] http://contentfilter.futuragts.com/phraselists sam hooker|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|http://www.noiseplant.com tail -f /var/llog/llama -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEvkLBX8KByLv3aQ0RAhMoAKDEVgEiN678vtogs4R5ap5+Pkp5CQCg8Znz +RItHbS64dPMi3MtGaMejWc= =dsIt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
